Starting a MicroISV in record time.
I’ve mentioned Patrick McKenzie’s blog before. Patrick’s experience has been very interesting. He started his company called Bingo Card Creator in record time. He stayed laser focused on the problem he was trying to solve, and rather than goofing around with it for months on end, he got it out the door and in front of customers. In eight days and with less than 60 dollars he had built his program. After a year in business he is now grossing over $2,000 a month.
Inspired by his example, another entrepreneur by the name of Ezell has decided to one up Patrick. Ezell had a discussion with his friend about whether or not what Patrick did is even possible. Ezell’s friend doesn’t think it’s possible, while Ezell thinks it is. So to test the theory Ezell will attempt to get his business going in six days with a budget of $20. I’m very excited to follow his progress on this project. His project is called BabyAid and is designed to allow parents to log the activities of their child. I am particularly interested in this program as I just had a baby boy seven weeks ago. Currently we log everything in a notebook. I even mentioned to my wife that a program would be better for this, but she dumped on the idea. ;). In the end though, keeping this type of log is very important, and when we forget to update the log it’s a headache to figure out if our son is on schedule. The biggest problem Ezell will face is making the log entry simple and convenient. If he can jump that hurdle it’s pretty likely that when Ezell gets his program finished, I’ll be one of his first customers.
Ezell I’ll be following your progress and rooting for you all the way.